Is the drive in question in any kind of enclosure? If it is, there's a good chance using ATA Secure Erase will either not work, or will brick the drive. There are many craptastic bridge chipsets out there. Otherwise this might help. http://mackonsti.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/ssd-secure-erase-ata-command Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org